Can It Live Up to The Legend Status? First Listen to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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Ringo does the most difficult thing with his drumming. I am now retired but I had a 40 year career as a drummer and I will tell you that is isn't about that you can play it is about what you do play. Paul's bass lines aren't difficult to copy perfectly either. Rather simple genius. Same with Ringo's drumming.
I'm not a drummer but i've always admired Ringo's drumming. Yet i would hear people say the other three were great and Ringo was okay.
That didn't seem right to me but im no expert on drumming.
Then i started to notice that every time an actual drummer would give their opinion on Ringo it was that he was great drummer.
The way he played and the things he did was fantastic they would tell me..
I think people tend to overlook the fact that on all those great Beatle's songs Ringo had to come up with the drumming.
It wasn't like John and Paul told him exactly what and how to play.
You could put Bonham, Peart or Moon in the Beatles and as great as they were it wouldn't work.
Maybe Charlie Watts might work but Ringo was the perfect drummer for what the Beatles needed.
I play guitar but I've heard many drummers say they can't copy Ringo exactly because of his left hand playing.
Yet to this day, I haven't found a single RUclips drummer who could perfectly replicate Ringo's fills in 'Oh Darling"
Agreed. And it's not just drummers who recognise him. Few if any drummers have come up with more drum licks that are instantly recognisable. With his economic but inventive playing, Ringo contributed to the orchestration of those songs, and as such was the ultimate servant of the song. Without him they would have been something else entirely. Everyone who ever studied the genre of rock music knows this.
Wrong about Ringo and the drums but that's okay. Only drummers really know.
Ringo is a great drummer
You'll never be able to make some people understand. I read that someone challenged those drummers by asking them to name any Beatle song, then playing it, CD, vinyl, etc. Then asking them, "Okay, now tell me, what would you do differently?" ....... Silence
@@absurdcheesecakeRingo as the Fat Controller.
Ringo is a very fine drummer and it’s not only numerous highly rated drummers who have said so. In fact anyone who truly has an ear for rock and pop music should understand that he was perfect for the Beatles.
Ringo it's a very good drummer but compared to other drummers Ringo it's not Even closet to be on that level, he fit so good in the Beatles and he did an amazing job, like in come together or ticket to ride or day tripper, but again compared to John Bohnam for example it's just not a big deal.
The White Album they released a year later would blow your mind
Being from the U.S. the next album released was “Magical Mystery Tour.” As interested as I am to hear him get to the White Album I’d hate for him to skip MMT.
Anybody who who tries to argue Ringo isn't a great drummer, change the subject, or just walk away
They have no clue what they're talking about with regard to music
Get away from me boy, you bother me
Not saying he’s bad. His style rarely takes the stage and almost always works as a contribution to the song. He’s not the most technical or anything that would stand out. Just another piece in the puzzle
@@tamerail he is regarded as one of the best drummers in the world
Google the top ten drum solos of all time. The Beatles "The End" will be in the top five in almost every list you check
@@tamerailyeah that’s a great take idk what people are tripping about. I disagree on technicality tho. He’s definitely very technical
Your right I've heard the same thing from people who have never picked up a pair of sticks in their life
He was a brilliant percussionist. Only musicians understand. Flair is for the amateurs.
One thing I always wondered was how much this record helped young people learning English as a foreign language around the world, especially as the lyrics from SPLHCB were printed on the back of the sleeve, apparently a novel feature then.
I taught English to foreign students in the 80s and 90s and sometimes used pop song lyrics as a teaching aid, explaining them, and then getting the class to sing the song alongside the music - 'When I'm 64' and 'She's leaving home' being favourites. I was often surprised by how many teenagers from all over Europe already knew the English words to them!
Nice. The "Rosetta Stone" in a Psychedelic Rock album.
Revolver. A must listen
It is interesting and somewhat amusing listening to the younger generations interpret songs those of my age, I am 75, have known from their inception. I hitch hiked 12 miles beginning at 6:30 in the morning to be at the record shop when they opened to get this album on the day of its release. Hitched back home and spent the rest of the day listening to it. . These takes are hilarious.
This is a band that really figured they could do anything and did it. There was no corporate pressure, artistically and that shows. Paul had the idea to go into an alter ego trip. Great idea but if the product is bad, then no one would talk about it today.
If you are going to listen to Abbey Road please do NOT interrupt Side B, it is a medley from Because to The End, all tracks are basically one long track
The Medley starts at You never give me your money, not Because
If he doesn't pause the video would be probably blocked.
The best album they put out was 'Abby Road'...hands down.
A day in the life. (The story) John Lennon was working on a song & didn't know what to do with it. Meanwhile Paul McCartney was working on a song of his own but was struggling to finish it. Producer George Marting thought they should fuse the 2 songs together...The rest is history.
57:42 John Lennon added that weird sound to annoy your dogs in the room. He thought it would be funny. Just John being a wise A..
George Harrison did learn to play the sitar!!
That wasn't Charlie Chaplin. It's Stan Laurel with Oliver Hardy next to him.
And it's R E O Speedwagon not reo. Named after a car.
Yoko didn't break up the Beatles. Just like all of us, she loved John. What's wrong with that?
Bc she got him hooked on hard drugs that sucked the creativity out of him and ruined his mental state
Yoko Ono is my Number 1 enemy. Close 2nd place goes to the entire city of Houston Texas (for undisclosed reasons)
@@rudolphschmidt313what a load of rubbish! Lennon and all the Beatles were taking hard drugs long before Yoko came on the scene!
@@tamerailYoko Ono had nothing to do with the Beatles breaking up! Their time was up but at least they got out at the top!
@@rudolphschmidt313the Beatles were taking hard drugs long before Yoko came on the scene!
jeff lynne is a known beatle lover
"This must have thrown people off." That's an understatement! The entire reality of Sgt. Pepper - the look, the concept, the songwriting, the instrumentation, the production - *everything* about it was groundbreaking. And you better believe, yes, it absolutely did throw people off. (I was 13 years old in 1967, and after hearing this album I was never the same.)
If this guy thinks sgt peppers is out there, he should try 13th floor elevators
Rings Star’s super power as a drummer is that he was expert in figuring out what part to play for that particular song. He isn’t flashy but effective.
id HIGHLY reccommend listening to abbey road top to bottom. that b side is the greatest bside of all time. its amazing. you’ll love it
Lucy was Julian Lennon's (John's son) friend from school that Julian made a drawing of her in the sky with stars around her. When Julian showed John the drawing he told him that it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" and John liked it for a song. Sadly, Lucy died rather young of Lupus and this is the reason that Julian is a great supporter of Lupus awareness...
On vinyl, the tracks flowed into each other.
The answer to the question posed in your title is "Yes.'
Imagine ripping on Ringo's drumming before ever hearing "A Day In The Life"
and tomorrow never knows
Paperback Writer
Rain
Come Together
And Yer Blues and Helter Skelter
@@karaamundson3964 i always tell people to listen to rain at it's original speed
Great video! it’s good to see a German make see the close link between our favourite band and your great country.
They did get famous in Hamburg 🤷♂️
@@tamerail They didn’t actually become famous in Hamburg. They honed their skills there. It was an essential part of their development.
Ringo doesn't beat drums just to make noise, he is the metronome to the band but in a sustained creative way. He weaves his ability, as not to run over his bandmates. He's a method drummer. Causes the Beatles to be very tight and pleasing to listen to. He IS the Best!! 👍😎
The second part of Sgt. Pepper when played was a live take in the studio. A pure performance piece. 'LIVE"!
Used to be you had to find a friend or friend of a friend and trap them in the backseat to get their reaction to listening to this album the first time. Now we can just go on here. Great reaction to a great album.
That’s why my momma told me not to get in to cars of strangers. They would trap me and play old records. She was right after all
I really enjoyed watching your reaction, especially your amazement at the diversity of instruments used. Going into the backstory of some of the songs really does help to understand them!
This is one of my all time favourite albums and i love seeing people feeling similar about it
And in terms of this album being a concept album: i recommend watching James Gargreaves Guitars' Video: the true story behind Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts club Band (i think that is the title)
It goes into heavy detail and has some interesting points and theories
I enjoyed your reaction, insight and review. I’ve been listening to it since it it was released and I am still learning and imagining new things about the album.
I wish i could hear this album for the first time again.
The very end is a loop, to stop it you had to pick the arm of the record player up. People played it backwards to see if there was a hidden message
I agree the last song is like back in real life. Yet like the other songs it also mixes everyday reality (the hum drum part with McCartney here) and the escape from that with the dreamy section. I feel the album goes between those extremes, seeking escape or enlightenment.
The songs have a cast of various characters. Apart from the Harrison track It feels very British themed. It was the first popular music album that had the lyrics printed on the cover or sleeve.
This was an alter ego group. They had finished touring finding it less enjoyable and retreated to the studio. This gave them more freedom to experiment.
The US release of “Sgt. Pepper” has none at the very end, because Capitol decided to omitted the ending and let it go into the locked groove where it reaches blank.
I really appreciated your reaction! Pretty brilliant and energetic! But I want to post here the real explanation John Lennon gave about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds: "According to Lennon, the song's origins lie in a drawing his 3-year old son Julian had created and brought home from school. The drawing was of his friend Lucy O'Donnell who was floating in the sky surrounded by sparkling jewels and diamonds". He was defending himself from critics that assumed the title came from LSD.
It appears the self proclaimed reviewers back then liked to point to drugs every time when it came to the Beatles. But I think it’s quite funny how some of the songs are only based on posters, paintings or drawings.
I remember Paul McCartney talking about the time he was in a hospital waiting for his child to be born when he saw a Picasso on the wall which depicted a guitarist using an unique chord (with two fingers only).
Based on that he went and created the structure and chord progression for an entire song only using 2 fingers. Whistling a melody on top. In the end that melody made it onto one of Kanye’s songs which is how I’ve got to know of it.
@@tamerail which kanye song?????
@@brilliantsuper_1515 I can guarantee you you will dislike it because it is VERY far from the snippet Paul sent over.
The one I’m mentioning is All Day - at 4:17 seconds into the song you’ll hear the original guitar play and whistle by McCartney. The rest of the song however is incredibly aggressive.
They have 2 other songs together. Which are way more suitable for somebody who enjoys the Beatles. Most famously FourFiveSeconds with Rihanna.
And Only One (I prefer) since it’s a calm heartfelt song about Kanye’s mother in heaven talking to him. Both had lost their mothers at a young age so they could relate to one another very well on that topic.
They had worked on an entire collab album which never released and those 3 songs are everything we have left.
Paul did say though that working with Kanye was the closest he has ever gotten to working with Lennon again. Bouncing musical ideas from one end to another and just trying things out.
@@tamerail ive been a fan of ye and the beatles for years i was just wondering which song had the paul snippet because i didnt remember, thanks for mentioning "Only One" because i hadnt heard that yet and its a really solid song. wouldve loved to hear that collab album though
This was the very first "concept" album and set the stage for later bands such as Pink Floyd, etc. It was Paul's idea to do something new after years of non-stop touring, like becoming a "new" band. It turned out great, obviously.
Paul wrote the melody for "When I'm 64" when he was 14.
Ringo is an amazing drummer! Most rock drummers think so! He never made it about himself… it was always about what was best for the song! He wasn’t a showboat… he didn’t compete for attention. And you will see, the more you dive into this band, some of his drumming is very unique.
By the way, John was abandoned by both his mother and father, as a child. His father showed up once he became famous. He found out when he was a young teen that his mother lived only a few blocks from where he lived! He had a big chip on his shoulder. But he became a great musician, so he finally had an outlet for his feelings! He got better, as a man. So maybe we forgive him for his bad behavior. He hung out with his mum for a few years. She introduced him to guitar. Then she was tragically killed, hit be a motorcycle while crossing the street. Both he and Paul lost their mums in their teens… and they became the biggest songwriting team of the 20th century!
Actually, his mother was killed by a car driven by an off-duty police officer. The last year he was alive he bought bullet proof vests for the NYPD>
1967...the summer of love! Everybody who wasn't L7 was trippin' balls! 😂😂😂
The last note on the piano is called the "heaven note." It is directly in the middle of the register. They did not know it was called the heaven note when they did it.
Note? It's a chord, played by all 4 on 4 different pianos.
Very enjoyable. If I had to choose one piece of music from the 2nd half of the 20th century it would be A Day In The Life, no doubt about it, I love watching people's brows furrow as they listen to it the first time, it induces a very visceral reaction, it's a bit more than mere music. The video is worth a look at too, the recording of the orchestra was turned into a 'Happening', a 1960's hippy cultural event and many of the 'beautiful people' were there. "I read the news today, oh boy..." is a sentiment which has only grown over the past 60 years as the news has constantly become more oh boy...
Back in the 60s when an album ended, if you didn’t lift the needle off the record, it would just repeat itself until you took the needle off the record. That’s what that weird gibberish at the end of the album is for.
Depended on the record player. Some had an automatic return.
@ true, but they did that for the ones that didn’t have the automatic return.
The last "studio chatter" is not part of A Day in the Life. On vinyl, the stylus needle moves along the tracks and after the last track, larger spiral groves lead the stylus to just outside the record label. Many record players at the time would automatically pick up the stylus at this point. The Beatles put a track on the circle surrounding the label that would play over and over if the stylus was allowed to remain there.
Special note: I have several versions of the record, and there are many versions of the center track.
As hokey as "When I'm Sixty-Four" is, it's wonderful.
Back in 1967 they only had four tracks to work with in the studio.
If you want to see the recording session for "A Day in the Life" you can find it here on RUclips accompanying the track. Various 60s bands have dropped in to rubberneck, most notably to my mind The Monkees, on their UK tour. After meeting the Beatles they started writing their own material and turned into a real band.
George Harrison not only wrote Within you and Without you he plays the Sitar that you hear. George studied Indian Culture.
The end of the show was Sgt. Pepper's Reprise, and A Day In The Life is the encore.
If you listen for it, you can hear a lot of guitar and a few vocals played through a Leslie rotating speaker.
Ringo drummed for years in the worlds greatest band ever, the end.
Sergeant Pepper album was the biggest turning point in Rocks brief history.
Then along came The White Album!
57:30 - is where you don’t hear in the original US release. Capitol omitted the locked groove at the end of side 2 to make it a blank locked groove. It did not appeared until the “Rarities” album in 1980 where the last track on side 2 which was 2 seconds of gobbledygook.
"Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds" WAS NOT about LSD. For one, Lennon was writing like that as a kid -- long before drugs; his favorite book was _Alice in Wonderland,_ and favorite poem "Jabberwocky". And the song was based on a drawing by his son Julian about a girl named Lucy in his school class.
And "Strawberry Filed" was an actual place that still exists. That song isn't about drugs -- it's about his childhood.
For those who fall for the "drugs" exaggerations: How was their music affected by their uses of caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol?
The gag at the end was that the nonsense track was in the runout groove that was just slightly bigger than what it would take to trigger the lift mechanism on the turntable... So it would just keep playing in a loop until somebody got up to lift the tonearm off the record!!
That chord crash at the end marks a point where the world subtly changed. It was almost like the loss of innocence, we could no longer be the children we once were. This album carried a lot of weight - and it all pounds down in a single exclamation point. Don't worry about that odd little bit at the end. It was on the inner track of the vinyl - if the record player didn't lift the needle up, you had to hear that thing repeat 33 1/3 times a minute. Until you got up off your lazy stoned, dazed butt and made it stop.
The fairground music was a genuine fairground steam organ recorded then the tape chopped and reassembled in a different order with overlays to get the swirling effect. These days it would be easily done by computer. This pioneering technique* would be adapted by bands such as Pink Floyd to get similar effects.
[*Actually the first example I am aware of is from the 1944 film of Shakespeare's Henry V, starring Laurence Olivier as the king. They repeatedly cloned a single recording of a longbow arrow being loosed: Perhaps 1> 2> 4> 8 etc. until they they had a big enough sound for the 5,000 archer's arrow storm against the oncoming French cavalry at the battle of Agincourt. It sounds awesome! They had to overlay a cartoon of the arrows onto the film though; no CGI.]
genius album
Ringo knew what the drummers job was. Keep the band in time and play in the song, not over it. Any drummer will tell you that he was a fantastic drummer. The sheer number of recognizable drum beats is staggering. The ending E chord on the piano was several people on several pianos. They kept increasing the gain on the studio mics to keep the sustain going. They got so sensitive that you could hear studio background noise on them. The last short noise track was on the skip track. It was intended to play continuously if someone fell asleep with the album still going. I always thought of A Day In The Life as the fictional band's encore.
harison played the sitar. ringo only played what was needed for the track...listen to rain come together.
Top selling musicians of all time.
A day in the life is a masterpiece
Ringo Starr was the most ideal compositional drummer that The Beatles could ever have hoped for. He ties together three very different self-led songwriter-instrumentalists in the band in order to help lay down a coherent record also with added compositional value
On the stereo comments, just keep in mind this was recorded on a 4-track recorder. They had 2 that they bounced between. But the mixing was on a 4-track.
Ringo didn't particularly like Sgt. Pepper's. His least favorite album, so he didn't really participate and didn't try to surprise with anything, he just did his job
Well he gets introduced as "Billy Shears" then the other three alter egos were dropped along with most of the concept of the Band, so he must have been left wondering about that.
The strength of Ringo was not that what he did was technically advanced, but that he had an ability to find just the right kind of drumming for each Beatles song, thus adding to the song. Ticket to Ride, Get Back, A Day in the Life, Come Together, I Feel Fine, and Tomorrow Never Knows are good examples.
A drummer called Sina explains it very well: ruclips.net/video/0NCczct2ZIM/видео.html
I'm 68 years old and a lifetime Beatles' fan. I listen to a lot of Beatles reaction videos and yours is one of my favorites-great observations. I would disagree about Ringo. He was exactly the drummer the Beatles needed and everything he did was to support the music, not to show off his drumming skills.
The thing about the chatter at the end of the album was originally just in the run-out groove, but there isn't any "run-out" groove on a CD.
Ringo’s playing is simple but perfect. Every fill is fresh, musical and keeps prefect time. He serves the song better than any drummer.
Can you even imagine that this album was done on a 4-track recorder, given the sonic landscape it provides?? John Lennon was in an extremely fertile period of songwriting with extreme aural and lyrical imagery. The beauty of his writing is the genesis point for songs like Lucy, Mr. Kite and a Day in the Life. Such humble & common events / objects are turned into epic songs after John brings them to life. Having the context of the song histories really adds to the Beatle experience. Lennon was light years ahead of rock music at this point.
Interesting and entertaining reaction. I like your approach to making reactions. For your information, you are confusing word "fair" with "circus. Like that you interject research in the middle of the reaction and your spontaneous remarks. Again, very entertaining, entertaining, and unique, not like any other reaction that I've ever heard and seen. Hope you have success.
I had assumed they were synonyms of one another. But yes a fair is something different
Best album of all time.
The “ unusual” guitar was, most likely, a Sitar, possibly played by George
people think differently now, then we they did back in the sixties. We didn't have the internet, we had friends. My generation grew to hate society's hypocrisy, so we grew our hair long, dressed down instead of dressing up, and refused to play the game. I'm a songwriter from the sixties. songwriters paint pictures with words. sometimes the songs tell a story or have a message. sometimes the song is abstract and doesn't need to make sense, no need to overthink it. keep in mind that back in the day we didn't follow the rules on purpose.
This ending was the center Groove of the vinyl
The Capitol US version has none at the locked groove.
57:41 - The Beatles composed this little nonsensical piece at the end to play in the runout groove of the original LP. My (American) version of the LP didn't contain this, however, and because I was told that this little end-piece existed, I was very frustrated trying to listen for something that actually didn't exist on my album.
You can find the harpist here on You Tube talking about recording her part.
Back when I would get The Beatles' albums, when they were brand new, I usually wore them out! Especially Sgt Pepper and the White Album. I even wore our an Abbey Road CD! It had holes burnt in it from being played so much!
Wore out! Stupid autocorrect.
60 years later and we are still talking about album. Case closed.
The lyrics for BENEFIT are composed from an old circus poster
Funny you mentioned Ringo’s drumming and then right after that sang Somebody to Love. Ringo is my second favourite drummer, after another drummer that is usually dismissed or forgotten about for not being technically impressive: Roger Taylor from Queen. They both have the same strengths, they play for the song and they can play with EVERY style of song. They put the perfect beat, on perfect drum or cymbal, with the perfect style on each song they play. And it comes off beautifully melodic.
Lucy in the sky came from a drawing that Julian did when he was a kid and his father asked him what it was and he said that's Lucy in the sky with diamonds
I'm sorry. Do you think being a good drummer means playing complex parts? No being a good drummer means playing the right parts that enhances the music and Ringo is doing that beautifully. I can't imagine any Beatles songs that would sound better with different drum parts.
Kanye doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Beatles.
That’s probably why Paul McCartney worked on an entire album with the man and said that working with Kanye is exactly like working with John Lennon. Unless you say that Paul doesn’t know music and John Lennon is not talented.
In addition, Michael Jackson was obsessed with one of Kanye’s albums before his death, Elton John and Stevie Wonder have worked with him, even Prince admitted that he’s talented. :)
The first time I listened to this song, I drifted away almost into a trance. Of course, I didn't have to pause the song all the time to make comments about it to someone.
Ringo wrote for the song. He was Perfect for the group.
Rubber Soul is a good early Beatles album.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds is the best song of all time.
The person who "blew his mind out in a car", heir to the Guiness fortune, Tara Browne, was in fact a friend and fan of The Beatles, there is at least one photo of him with them.
John was not referring to Yoko, but his wife Cynthia.
That bit at the end was a treat for the poorer listeners playing the album on a cheap record player because a good record player will lift the needle automatically before it gets to the inner ring where the loop was recorded.
The Final Track: The original vinyl pressing had what was called "The Inner Groove"; you had to skip the stylus over a hump to play it.. In subsequent pressings it wasn't included on future pressings until 1980 when the track was released on a US Capital Records release called "The Beatles Rarities. Then when SPLHCB was released on CD for the first time they included it. Including 2009 remasters, and 2015 remster/remix.
An awesome album you could react to is "aurora" by daisy jones and the six! They are a "fictional" band created from a tv show (based off a book) and are HEAVILY inspired by/based off Fleetwood Mac. Epic 70's inspired music and Elvis Presley's granddaughter is actually a member!! would be amazing to see your reaction
At this time they released this both in mono and stereo. Not everybody had a stereo turntable at this time.
Can anyone else hear the high pitch hum just before the final loop
Woof
Dog Whistle. My dog went crazy when i first played it and I heard the whistle then. By the time I was 25, I couldn't hear it any more.
None of them are on the US release after the long note at the very end of “A Day In The Life”, it went nothing. Capitol Records decided to removed weird sounds like the Dog Whistle and gibberish from the locked groove, it went to classic Capitol silent locked groove instead.
57:38 the whistle starts just before the words
Georges learned how to play sithar during 2 years with Ravi Shankar, one of the sithar masters.
I just subscribed I think you gave a fair assessment
The last sound on A Day In the Life-where they had John Lennon's (Never Be Any Other Way etc) was in the trail-off on the album and would play continuously until you took the tone arm off the record. The last part was for the "stoner's" who were unable or incapacitated to take the needle off the record thereby continuing their "trip."
Capitol deleted the locked groove gibberish, so they went with the silent locked groove after “A Day In The Life”, but it’s nothing.
because you can't play drums
“A Day In The Life” was never as single. I think you misread what the quote was trying to say, “According to musicologist John Covach, "'A Day in the Life' is perhaps one of the most important single tracks in the history of rock music.” it’s just emphasizing that it was this track in this track alone that was important, it wasn’t attached or released as any single EP, and was made specifically for this album. And singles back, then worked a lot differently than singles today. With a few exceptions, 95% of the Beatles is catalog of singles were never on any albums. Singles reviewed as individual projects separate to the albums, so they didn’t just throw it in because they had room to fill. Just clarifying, great insight and great video! 👍
Listen to the albums in the sequence in which they were released. It will all make sense.
I like your reactions!
Fixing a Hole features a harpsichord, a 17th century instrument, very common in mid sixties progressive rock.
That’s the word. Thank you!
Bro, Ringo not technically the most talented, but he made significant contributions to a few hundred of the greatest songs of the rock era. It takes a supremely talented musician to do that. Drummers will tell you.
Rumour at the time was that the thing at the end was the suggestion that you "push it round the other way," meaning tht you turn the turntable in the wrong direction. The words then seem to be saying, "We shall fuck you lest you do." there were variations but that's what I heard.
A day in the life was not a single release. There wasn't one from this album in the 1960s either. It wasn't until 1978, that the three tracks Sgt.Pepper, With a little help... and A day in the life were subsequently released on a single. Many fans later wished, that the Beatles had included Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on the album, which would have made it even more unique. Joe Cocker made a legendary and very successful cover-version of "With a little help...". In my opionion the best cover of a Beatles track until today.
The album is now seen a little more critically, because it has the one or other weakness (e.g. When I'm 64), but it won numerous elections held in 1999, as the greatest pop/rock album of the century. Of course this can be discussed for a long time, but the influence of Sgt.Pepper was huge, as the album challenged all the competition, to improve in terms of production technology and versatility.
I don't think When I'm 64 is weak. It might even be the 4th or 3rd most recognisable song on it. Even in the video he said he'd felt he'd heard it before. Like Yesterday it feels simple and direct.
I Love “When I’m 64”. 😞
@@joebloggs396 I probably have to explain a little more what I mean.
When I'm 64 isn't bad music, it's more of a strategic weakness on Pepper. The musical break, placing the piece after the excursion into world music of Within you, without you, indeed has a certain fascination. But McCartney has a soft spot for grandparents' music from his parents' house. And he wrote the thing when he was 14 years old.
64, Till there was you, Honey Pie. Do I want to hear this stuff on a rock/pop record? Not necessarily. There would certainly have been alternatives like the experimental Carnival of Light, which was never published, or Strawberry Fields.
Another aspect of Pepper is, that Within you, without you and She's leaving home can actually only be described as Beatles songs to a limited extent, as far as the musical implementation is concerned, because apart from Harrison on a few Indian instruments, there is no Beatle active there.
@@braudabo The whole middle part is old timey - Mr Kite Victorian, Within You old Indian style, WI64 jazzy-pop 20s.
Strawberry Fields may have fitted as a companion piece to Lucy. But Penny Lane was too much a single style song. Eleanor Rigby could have fitted on too.
McCartney was the main force behind the LP, and by part design part serendipity it can work.
@@joebloggs396 Yes, that's right. However, the other tracks with "old timey" elements sound more exotic, exciting and interesting, than the somewhat musty rocking chair-esque When I'm 64.
By the way, there is a very nice cover of When I'm 64 by the Austrian Beatles fanatics, the MonaLisa Twins. Also a kind of gem: their cover of Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
"A Day in the Life" was the encore for the SPLHCB show.